Posted on 09/08/2022 10:00:17 PM PDT by grundle
And don’t forget, monthly $2.3 billion payments for maintenance from Uncle Sam.
The ribbon bridge is made up of special potoon units which are placed in the water from one shore and extended by adding additional units that link like pieces of a puzzle. This goes on until they reach the other shore.
Can handle combat vehicles from jeeps and large trucks to small armored vehicles, but not the Abrams tanks which is why the 54th Combat Engineers and elements of the 299th made rubber boat amphibious assaults on enemy positions on the east side of the river to seize the much larger and stronger concrete bridge for the tanks to use.
Story, in part was on the cover of Newsweek in mid-April.
Hilarious video. Same people that stole the farms in South Africa and are now starving?
I hate it when that happens
If you watch the video (it’s short) it is an appropriate headline
Perhaps it should have screamed
Another example of white supremacy
It must have been built by NASA.
Nice post. You pretty much sum up the graft of the United States’ federal government.
I suspect the vandal took the handle.
“The Ghost and the Darkness” is one of my favorite films (despite the claim of inaccuracies).
Without the introduction of different belief systems, cultures cannot shift away from tribalism and the violence endemic to tribalism.
We can even see this in the U.S. When the Left destroys the belief systems undergirding our culture, mores and behaviors devolve.
Like peeling an onion.
Once the Judeo/Christian belief system is peeled back, whatever lies beneath becomes the operating cultural foundation.
So the question is, what preceded Judeo/Christianity in the West?
And another question is, why don't secular people--atheists and agnostics--understand this very simple fact?
When the ribbon used in the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new bridge is a structural component of the bridge, you might be in Africa.
Gotta watch the video. The moment the woman cuts the ribbon, the foot bridge they’re standing on collapses.
Africa wins again!
“After spending 3.7 million USD on it, the local warlord drove away in his new Escalade.”
Just like they do here.
Thanks.
You’re right. It’s a wonder it didn’t.
Hmmm... Looks like someone forgot to put up the sign: “Maximum 4 people on bridge at any time.”
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